Experts

Anne Devlin is a Research Officer in the Economic Analysis Division at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, Ireland and an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Health Research at the Management School, Queen’s University Belfast. Her main research interests are labour economics, economics of disability, and the economics of education. Anne has also conducted research on a range of economic issues relevant to the Northern Ireland economy.

Shamik was the Chief Economist and Director for Economics at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2014 until 2019. He has had 30 years experience as a professional economist, alternating between private and public sectors. He started at HM Treasury in the late 1980s, moving on in the 1990s to Oxford Economic Forecasting and the Bank of England (where he ran the UK forecast team and was a senior manager in Monetary Analysis). In 2000, he moved to Morley Fund Management, then in 2004 co-founded

Swati Dhingra is an Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, researching globalisation and industrial policy. She is co-author of the recent “Life after Brexit” report published by the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance, which looked at the UK’s options outside of the EU. She is also associate editor of the Journal of International Economics. Swati was awarded the FIW Young Economist Award and the Chair Jacquemin Award by the European Trade Study Group for her

Riccardo Di Leo is a Research Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the study of public opinion, with applications to the civil-military gap, terrorism in Western countries, and historical legacies.

Professor Laura Diaz Anadon holds the chaired Professorship of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge. She is also the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy & Natural Resource Governance, C-EENRG, a Bye-Fellow at Peterhouse, and a Visiting Scholar at the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs at Harvard University. She has published widely in top journals in climate, energy and innovation policy, is an IPCC Lead Author, and has various

Matt Dickson is a Reader in Public Policy at the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, where he leads the programme of research on widening participation in higher education. Additional areas of expertise include returns to higher education; the causal effects of education on an individual’s socio-economic outcomes, their health and their children’s outcomes; and the impact of selective schooling systems on education and labour market outcomes.